Book on Pranabandhu Kar soon

The Sahitya Akademi on Saturday announced to publish a monograph on eminent short story writer Pranabandhu Kar at his birth centenary here.

TNN | Updated: Sep 14, 2014, 13:55 IST

BHUBANESWAR: The Sahitya Akademi on Saturday announced to publish a monograph on eminent short story writer Pranabandhu Kar at his birth centenary here.

As a mark of honour for other literary luminaries in the state, the akademi secretary K Sreenivasa Rao announced it would also celebrate the birth centenary of Sraddhakar Supakar, Kunja Bihari Das and Gopinath Mohanty.

The dignitaries, who attended a seminar, urged the akademi to publish short stories of Kar and translate those into other languages.

The seminar, jointly organized by Sahitya Akademi and Odia department of Utkal University, discussed stories and plays of Kar.

Vice-chancellor of Utkal University Ashok Das described Kar as a writer of extraordinary genre. "He was a writer, who belonged to the Renaissance age of Odia literature," Das said.

Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari said his writing reflected the quality of his plays in the form of an iceberg, the tip of which was seen but the depth was intense.

"An artist cannot be differentiated from art and this was proved in the case of Kar and his works," he said.

A book, Eka Mati, Aneka Akasa, written by Kar around 1973-74 was released on the occasion.

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